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  1. Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture
    Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 2020/5587
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    I Smit 1
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2019 A 13020
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
    GUG 6249-068 7
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    Philologisches Seminar, Bibliothek
    H 8027
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    "Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an anthology of epigrams by contemporary poets who wrote about what mattered to elite men in sixth- century Constantinople: harlots and dancing girls, chariot races in the hippodrome, and the luxuries of the Roman bath. But amid this banquet of worldly delights, ascetic Christianity - pervasive in early Byzantine thought - made sensual pleasure both more complicated and more compelling. In this book, Steven D. Smith explores how this miniature classical genre gave expression to lurid fantasies of domination and submission, constraint and release, and the relationship between masculine and feminine. The volume will appeal to literary scholars and historians interested in Greek poetry, late antiquity, Byzantine studies, early Christianity, gender, and sexuality"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108480239; 9781108727167
    Series: Greek culture in the Roman world
    Subjects: Epigrams, Greek; Epigrams, Byzantine; Literature and society
    Scope: xiii, 275 Seiten, Illustrationen, 1 Karte
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-272

  2. Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture
    Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian
    Published: 2021; © 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and... more

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    Byz.: Da/575 g
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    "Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an anthology of epigrams by contemporary poets who wrote about what mattered to elite men in sixth- century Constantinople: harlots and dancing girls, chariot races in the hippodrome, and the luxuries of the Roman bath. But amid this banquet of worldly delights, ascetic Christianity - pervasive in early Byzantine thought - made sensual pleasure both more complicated and more compelling. In this book, Steven D. Smith explores how this miniature classical genre gave expression to lurid fantasies of domination and submission, constraint and release, and the relationship between masculine and feminine. The volume will appeal to literary scholars and historians interested in Greek poetry, late antiquity, Byzantine studies, early Christianity, gender, and sexuality"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108727167; 9781108480239
    Edition: First paperback edition 2021
    Series: Greek culture in the Roman world
    Subjects: Epigrams, Greek; Epigrams, Byzantine; Literature and society
    Scope: xiii, 275 Seiten, Illustrationen, 1 Karte
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-272